Example sentences of "walked across the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He walked across the small park on the far side of the street towards the vast exhibition centre , glancing back frequently : he 'd chosen this route because it was impossible for Marler to follow him without being seen . |
| 2 | Then , emerging to a night full of stars with our helmet lamps lighting our path before us , we walked across the fell back to Gunnerside and closing time . |
| 3 | Vi walked across the echoing emptiness to gaze at the mantel shelf and the reminders it held of Gerry . |
| 4 | She nodded and they left the house hand in hand and walked across the springy turf . |
| 5 | She walked across the strange tarmac . |
| 6 | But as I walked across the jarred and cratered road and sensed the usual quickenings of irony and aggression I also sensed something further — I sensed that my weight , my mass , my meat was being appraised , registered , scaled , not with lust , no , but with a carnal speculation I had never felt before . |
| 7 | Major Calder was chuckling as they walked across the Upper Castle Yard . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know about you , ’ the reporter was saying as they walked across the cool marble-floored lobby of the large office building and out into the hot , brilliant midday sunshine of Fenchurch Street , ‘ but I 'd practically sell my soul for a really icy cold vodka and tonic . |
| 9 | Suddenly , the white Mercedes pulled up in front of the taxi , the doors of Swift swung back , and Damian walked across the hot pavement with Domino Mei-Ling in his arms . |
| 10 | A loud knocking on the wicket-gate made Jack start and he muttered to himself as he left the office and walked across the cobbled yard . |
| 11 | Shortly after I joined the Crofters Commission , the Chief Technical Officer and I walked across the old shieling ground , in the heart of a large general common pasture , in another of the islands . |
| 12 | He walked across the white square . |
| 13 | It was late in the evening when Newman left the Hessischer Hof in Frankfurt and walked across the little wooded park . |
| 14 | Fran took a deep breath then opened the door , willing her legs to support her as she walked across the weed-strewn gravel towards him . |
| 15 | Rachel walked across the polished floor of the hall , eyes flickering with surprise over the stone walls , the Oriental statue eerily lit , guarding the doorway to the living-room . |
| 16 | Then the Germans turned and walked across the empty concrete to the rumbling Dornier . |
| 17 | A young man walked across the derelict site and hesitated as he reached Tony 's car . |
| 18 | He smelled frying bacon and heard the chatter of women as he walked across the tiled hall and let himself out through a side door . |
| 19 | She walked across the semicircular pod bay towards the monitor station , sealed behind a transparent partition . |
| 20 | On one occasion a friend of mine , resplendent in new sports jacket and flannels , rather unwisely walked across the diagonal market path . |